“This is a siege on Delta State and I am calling on the governor and his people, executive, to tackle the matter seriously because the people are starting to lose confidence in the ability of the government to protect them which is one of the cardinal ...
He was one of the determined campaigners for the revalidation of the results of that election that were wanted — dead or alive — by late Gen Sani Abacha. Kokori had helped to bring the nation to a standstill through the nationwide strike of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Employees .
Given his age at 75 and antecedents as an erudite scholar, unionist, administrator and author, he has paid his dues and may rightly be addressed as a statesman. In more recent years, he has been identified as a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress party , on which platform he was nominated as the Board Chairman of the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund but lost out in controversial circumstances. He was reassigned to preside over an admittedly less significant body.
He said, “This is a siege on Delta State and I am calling on the governor and his people, executive, to tackle the matter seriously because the people are starting to lose confidence in the ability of the government to protect them which is one of the cardinal objectives of a government.” Kokori is right on the frequency and intensity of attacks by herdsmen in recent times in the three senatorial districts of the state.
They are simply overwhelmed and intimidated by the murderous herders. Back to the correctness or otherwise of Kokori’s charge to Okowa to act and assure the safety of a people who are fast losing confidence in the government. He is politically correct in seeking to localize the fight against the herdsmen. But beyond his political correctness and sense of expediency, he is fatally wrong.
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